[4] He published "Grammar Disputations; or, an Examination of the eight parts of speech by way of question and answer, _English_ and _Latin_, whereby children in a very little time will learn, not only the knowledge of grammar, but likewise to speak and write _Latin_; as I have found by good experience. At the end is added a short Chronological index of men and things of the greatest note, alphabetically digested, chiefly relating to the Sacred and _Roman_ History, from the beginning of the World to the Year of Christ 1640, and downwards. Written for the use of schools of _Great-Britain_, by _Richard Hogarth_ Schoolmaster, 1712." This little book has also a _Latin_ title-page to the same purpose, "Disputationes Grammaticales, &c." and is dedicated, "Scholarchis, Ludimagistris, _et Hypodidascalis Magnæ Britanniæ_." [5] _Hogart_ was the family name, probably a corruption of _Hogherd_, for the latter is more like the local pronunciation than the first. This name disgusted Mrs. _Hogart_; and before the birth of her son, she prevailed upon her husband to liquify it into _Hogarth_. This circumstance was told to me by Mr. _Walker_, who is a native of _Westmoreland_. By Dr. _Morell_, I was informed that his real name was _Hoggard_, or _Hogard_, which, himself altered, by changing _d_ into ð, the Saxon _th_. [6] On what authority this is said, I am yet to learn. The registers of _St. Bartholomew the Great_, and of _St. Bartholomew the Less_, have both been searched for the same information, with fruitless solicitude. The school of _Hogarth's_ father, in 1712, was in the parish of _St. Martin's Ludgate_. In the register of that parish, therefore, the births of his children, and his own death, may probably be found.[A] [A] The register of _St. Martin's Ludgate_, has also been searched to no purpose. [7] This circumstance has, since it was first written, been verified by a gentleman who has often heard a similar account from one of the _last Head Assay-Masters_ at _Goldsmiths-Hall_, who was apprentice to a silversmith in the same street with _Hogarth_, and intimate with him during the greatest part of his life. [8] Universal Museum, 1764. p. 549. The same kind of revenge, however, was taken by _Verrio_, who, on the cieling of _St. George's Hall_ at _Windsor_, borrowed the face of Mrs. _Marriot_, the housekeeper, for one of the Furies. [9] This picture is noticed in the article _Thornhill_, in the _Biographia Britannica_, where, instead of _Wanstead_, it is called the _Wandsworth_ assembly. There seems to be a reference to it in "A Poetical Epistle to Mr. _Hogarth_, an eminent History and Conversation Painter," written _June_ 1730, and published by the author (Mr. _Mitchell_), with two other epistles, in 1731, 4to. "Large families obey your hand; _Assemblies_ rise at your command." Mr. _Hogarth_ designed that year the frontispiece to Mr. _Mitchell's_ Opera, _The Highland Clans_.